{"id":3303,"date":"2013-05-09T22:01:58","date_gmt":"2013-05-10T02:01:58","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/sonderbooks.com\/sonderquotes\/?p=3303"},"modified":"2013-05-09T22:05:33","modified_gmt":"2013-05-10T02:05:33","slug":"using-books","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sonderbooks.com\/sonderquotes\/?p=3303","title":{"rendered":"Using Books"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The delight I derive from writing in my books is one reason I do not own an e-book reader.  To me books are talismans and <em>memento mori<\/em>, yes, but they are also toys.  I like to play with my books, to mark them up, to give them a lived-in look.  I like to stack them up on the shelf and move them about and rearrange them according to new parameters &#8212; height, color, thickness, provenance, publisher, author&#8217;s nationality, subject matter, likelihood that I will ever read them.  Then I put them back the way they were.  I love to pull my books down off the shelf and read striking passages to baffled dimwits who have turned up at my house.  From the moment I own a book, even before I open it to the first page, I feel that it has in some way changed my life.  I treat my books the same way I treat my clothes or my shoes or my records:  I use them.  You cannot do any of this with a Kindle.<\/p>\n<p>&#8212; Joe Queenan, <em>One for the Books<\/em>, p. 15<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The delight I derive from writing in my books is one reason I do not own an e-book reader. To me books are talismans and memento mori, yes, but they are also toys. I like to play with my books, to mark them up, to give them a lived-in look. I like to stack them [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[26],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3303","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-books"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sonderbooks.com\/sonderquotes\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3303","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/sonderbooks.com\/sonderquotes\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/sonderbooks.com\/sonderquotes\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sonderbooks.com\/sonderquotes\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sonderbooks.com\/sonderquotes\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=3303"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/sonderbooks.com\/sonderquotes\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3303\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sonderbooks.com\/sonderquotes\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=3303"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sonderbooks.com\/sonderquotes\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=3303"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sonderbooks.com\/sonderquotes\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=3303"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}